Cognizant Hit With $8.4M Verdict Over NYU Prof's Firing

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal jury on Monday awarded $8.4 million to a New York University professor and former Cognizant Technology Solutions employee who claimed he was fired in retaliation for alleging the information technology company engaged in systematic hiring bias.

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Judge Denies Arbitration Bid In Land Rover Brake Defect Case

By Jonathan Capriel

Jaguar Land Rover cannot, for now, push out of court a proposed class action over claims Range Rover brakes have a defect that causes premature wear, a New Jersey federal judge has ruled, possibly giving some credence to the drivers' claims that the arbitration clause was "buried" within the 525-page vehicle handbook.

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TD Bank Moves Funds' Suits Over Failed First Horizon Deal

By Sydney Price

Toronto-based TD Bank has moved to New Jersey federal court two suits from hedge funds that invested in First Horizon Corp. alleging TD Bank is liable for their losses due to statements it made about the likelihood of regulatory approval of the banks' merger, arguing the suits both raise federal questions that belong in federal court.

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Eagle Pharma To Pay $9.5M To End Channel Stuffing Claims

By Katryna Perera

Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its former executives have agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle investor claims that they carried out a fraudulent "channel stuffing" scheme to inflate the revenue of one of the company's brand-name medications.

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J&J Unit Wants Forensic Exam Of Ex-Director's Devices

By George Woolston

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary urged a New Jersey federal court to order a former associate director to submit to a court-supervised forensic inspection of any device or account in which she could have stored confidential information it claims she downloaded in order to start her own competing company.

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Atty Gets Reciprocal NJ Suspension For Ethics Violations

By Rose Krebs

The New Jersey Supreme Court has imposed a three-year suspension on an attorney who had a Colorado law practice as a reciprocal discipline for ethics violations related to her conduct representing a client in Colorado legal matters, including having practiced law while suspended.

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NJ Town Says Mall's Sunday Sales Flatly Violate State Law

By Isaac Monterose

The New Jersey borough of Paramus urged a state court to not toss its suit against the owner of an East Rutherford mall that allegedly violated state laws that ban retailers from selling specific products on Sundays, saying it has standing to sue because the mall owner and the other defendants disobeying the state laws are economically harming the borough.

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FCA Qui Tams Are Unconstitutional, Eli Lilly Tells Justices

By Mark Payne

The False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, drugmaker Eli Lilly has told the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a Seventh Circuit decision upholding a $183 million trial win for a whistleblower who claimed the drug company hid how much it charged for Medicaid-covered drugs. 

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ESPN Moves To Join WWE In Subscriber 'Bait And Switch' Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

ESPN moved to intervene in a proposed class action accusing World Wrestling Entertainment of a "bait and switch" streaming scheme, telling a Connecticut federal court the case cannot proceed because subscribers agreed to arbitrate their claims and waived any right to sue as a class.

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Del Monte Says Lenders' Appeal Belongs In District Court

By Alex Wittenberg

Del Monte Foods has urged a New Jersey bankruptcy judge to deny a lender group's request to certify a settlement order for direct appeal to the Third Circuit, arguing that the group's challenge to the Chapter 11 deal should play out in district court instead.

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Wilentz Adds Workers' Comp Specialist As Counsel

By Jake Maher

Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer PA expanded its workers' compensation team with a counsel bringing more than 25 years of experience, coming from Pellettieri Rabstein & Altman.

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Opinion

AI Presents A Make-Or-Break Moment For Outside Counsel

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by corporate legal departments is forcing a long-overdue reset of the relationship between inside and outside counsel, and introducing a significant opportunity to shed frustrating inefficiencies and strengthen collaboration for firms willing to embrace the shift, says Intel Chief Legal Officer April Miller Boise.

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Lack Of Harm Dooms Ex-Estate Firm Partner's Bid For Notices

By Abigail Harrison

The founding partner of a trusts and estates law firm lost his bid to have the North Carolina Business Court order the firm to notify thousands of clients of his departure and hand over their contact information, with the judge ruling the lawyer failed to show he suffered irreparable harm.

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Senate Dems Probe Musk's Alleged Role In CTA Retreat

By Sarah Jarvis

Three Democratic senators have asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to provide information on Elon Musk's possible involvement in the rollback of the Corporate Transparency Act, saying the department's moves allow entities tied to the billionaire to operate in obscurity.

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Moye White, Ex-Landlord Settle $4M Denver Lease Dispute

By Zach Dupont

Days before the start of a bench trial between a Denver landlord and defunct law firm Moye White LLP in state court, the two parties reached a settlement, ending the litigation where the landlord accused the firm of owing almost $4 million.

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Blumenthal Presses DHS Chief To Scrap ICE Warrant Memo

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is looking for assurances from the newly installed secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, that he will honor his apparent pledge to rescind a policy that allows immigration agents to enter private property without a judicial warrant.

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NC Attys Oppose DOJ Interference In State Ethics Complaints

By Hayley Fowler

A group of North Carolina lawyers is opposing the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed rule allowing the attorney general to review state-level ethics complaints against the department's attorneys, saying such a change would undercut the Tar Heel State's ability to regulate government lawyers.

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Nixon Peabody Hires Hometown Litigator In Rhode Island

By Tracey Read

Nixon Peabody LLP has added a civil and criminal business litigation and trial attorney from Godfrey & Kahn SC to its complex disputes practice as a partner in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Beasley Allen Seeks Stay Of DQ In Federal J&J Talc MDL

By Jake Maher

The Beasley Allen Law Firm asked a New Jersey federal court on Monday to hold off on disqualifying it from talc litigation against Johnson & Johnson while it appeals the disqualification order which it called "unprecedented and incorrect."

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70+ Republicans Ask Justices To Review NY Gun Liability Law

By Courtney Bublé

More than 70 Republican lawmakers from both the House and Senate have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision that upheld New York state's public nuisance statute, which allows lawsuits against gun manufacturers that cause public harm.

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Michigan Judge OKs Lawyers' Exit From Atty's Retaliation Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Michigan federal judge has allowed a trio of lawyers to withdraw from representing an attorney accusing her former mentor of sexual harassment and her former law firm of retaliation.

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FTC Backs Florida's Move To Kill ABA's Accreditation Monopoly

By Hailey Konnath

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it supports the Florida Supreme Court's recent decision to end the American Bar Association's longstanding accreditation monopoly, agreeing with the finding that it is "not in Floridians' best interest for the ABA to be the sole gatekeeper" in deciding who sits for the bar exam.

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